truckman060473
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I was just wondering about the label plate on the side of a Murco tank for example. It shows something like 76t / 24t tare. Could someone clarify if the oil cargo carried weighs 24 tons or is that the wagon weight and it actually carries 76 tons of oil? If so I have been wrong by thinking all along that it was a very heavy tanker and carries just 24 tons of liquid cargo. I just read somewhere about freight on the Lickey requiring a banker loco if over a certain weight, mentioning 1075 tons for a class 60. The empty Westerleigh to Linsey tanks would be way more than this if the 20 or so tanks weighed 76t each.